Bug#1078769: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0: libwebkit2gtk does not render or is unresponsive if run in VMware guest with 3D acceleration enabled

[Markus Hamilton]

Package: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0
Version: 2.44.2-1~deb12u1
Severity: important

I have 2 programs installed which use this webkit rendering library: "yelp" and
"surf". yelp does not render anything. surf renders a website to some degree
but usually there is no way to enter any input. If you instruct surf to render
"duckduckgo.com", you cannot enter anything into the search bar.

This problem happens only when run in an installation which is a VMware guest.
VMware version is current (17.5.0), running in a Windows 10 host. All VMware
drivers and utilities inside the Linux VM have been installed from the offical
Debian repo.

The problem definitely has something to do with 3D acceleration because if I
turn that off in VMware, libwebkit2gtk works just fine inside the Linux VM.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/10 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 depends on:
ii  bubblewrap                      0.8.0-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.22.0-3+deb12u2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.22.0-5+deb12u1
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.46.0-5
ii  libavif15                       0.11.1-1
ii  libc6                           2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libcairo2                       1.16.0-7
ii  libdrm2                         2.4.114-1+b1
ii  libenchant-2-2                  2.3.3-2
ii  libepoxy0                       1.5.10-1
ii  libfontconfig1                  2.14.1-4
ii  libfreetype6                    2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u3
ii  libgbm1                         22.3.6-1+deb12u1
ii  libgcc-s1                       12.2.0-14
ii  libgcrypt20                     1.10.1-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0             2.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u1
ii  libgles2                        1.6.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.74.6-2+deb12u3
ii  libgstreamer-gl1.0-0            1.22.0-3+deb12u2
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0   1.22.0-4+deb12u5
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.22.0-3+deb12u2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.22.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.24.38-2~deb12u1
ii  libharfbuzz-icu0                6.0.0+dfsg-3
ii  libharfbuzz0b                   6.0.0+dfsg-3
ii  libhyphen0                      2.8.8-7
ii  libicu72                        72.1-3
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0      2.44.2-1~deb12u1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                 1:2.1.5-2
ii  liblcms2-2                      2.14-2
ii  libmanette-0.2-0                0.2.6-3+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpng16-16                     1.6.39-2
ii  libseccomp2                     2.5.4-1+deb12u1
ii  libsecret-1-0                   0.20.5-3
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                   3.2.2-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                    3.40.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                      12.2.0-14
ii  libsystemd0                     252.26-1~deb12u2
ii  libtasn1-6                      4.19.0-2
ii  libwayland-client0              1.21.0-1
ii  libwayland-server0              1.21.0-1
ii  libwebp7                        1.2.4-0.2+deb12u1
ii  libwebpdemux2                   1.2.4-0.2+deb12u1
ii  libwoff1                        1.0.2-2
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.8.4-2+deb12u2
ii  libxml2                         2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
ii  libxslt1.1                      1.1.35-1
ii  xdg-dbus-proxy                  0.1.4-3
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-gl           1.22.0-3+deb12u2
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav        1.22.0-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad  1.22.0-4+deb12u5
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri           22.3.6-1+deb12u1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk    1.14.1-1

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 suggests:
pn  gstreamer1.0-alsa  <none>

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